It was never just Manson. It was always “the Manson Family.” As if that quaint sobriquet somehow assuaged the horror wrought by Charles and his murderous apostles.

Now Charlie’s gone. Yet the family lives on, behind bars, in infamy.

With Charles Manson’s death Sunday evening in a Kern County hospital, our attention turns naturally to the living. Manson was convicted of seven first-degree murder charges and one count of conspiracy to commit murder for the August 1969 deaths of actress Sharon Tate, Abigail Ann Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Steven Earl Parent, Jay Sebring, Leno La Bianca and Rosemary La Bianca. But the murders, of course, were negotiated by the ”family.”

At their trial, members of the so-called Manson family shamelessly admitted their crimes and flaunted their allegiance to a leader, whom they said they loved and who was portrayed as controlling their minds.

With the help of reports from Rolling Stone, the AP, the New York Times and other outlets, here’s a scorecard from that year of 1971:

Manson, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Charles “Tex” Watson were convicted of all seven murders: five on Aug. 8 at the home of filmmaker Roman Polanski and his wife, actress Sharon Tate, and two on Aug. 9 at the home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.

Susan Atkins was convicted of the five murders on Aug. 8. During the Aug. 9 murders, she remained in the car.

Leslie Van Houten was convicted of the two murders on Aug. 9.

Steve “Clem” Grogan also remained in the car during the two murders on Aug. 9. He was convicted of the murder later that month of ranch hand Donald “Shorty” Shea.

Linda Kasabian was charged in all seven murders but was granted immunity in exchange for testimony.

And here’s where they are today, 48 years later:

Susan Atkins

Atkins was arrested in October 1969 in the murder of Gary Hinman, a friend of Mr. Manson, and convicted. Although police at that point didn’t realize who was responsible for the Tate-LaBianca murders, Atkins implicated herself in jail, when she reportedly told cellmates that she had stabbed Tate, tasted her blood and used it to write “Pig” on the front door of the house.

Becoming a born-again Christian in 1974, Atkins went on to write a memoir (“Child of Satan, Child of God”) and to denounce Manson. After being routinely denied parole, she died at a women’s prison in Chowchilla in 2009. She was 61 and had been diagnosed a year earlier with brain cancer.

Krenwinkel was a 19-year-old secretary from Los Angeles when she met Manson at a party and quickly fell in love with him. During her trial she said that during the murderous spree at Tate’s home, she chased down Abigail Ann Folger, an heiress of the coffee fortune. “We fought on the grass,” she testified. “I remember stabbing her, stabbing and stabbing.” Krenwinkel also admitted to helping to kill the LaBiancas the following night. Now 69 years old, she has been in a women’s prison in Riverside County for 47 years, longer than any other woman in California. Krenwinkel has been denied parole more than 13 times.

Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Manson’s followers

Leslie Van Houten

Van Houten said she recalled stabbing LaBianca in the abdomen 14 to 16 times and showed little remorse in the courtroom for her actions, admitting to wiping away fingerprints and burning her clothing. She even testified that she took chocolate milk and cheese from the refrigerator before leaving the crime scene. Decades later, Van Houten is calm and articulate, regarded as a model prisoner at the women’s prison in Corona, Calif. She has expressed regrets for taking part in the murders and claimed to have been mentally ill at the time, a condition she said was exacerbated by her use of LSD. “I believed that he was Jesus Christ,” Van Houten said of Manson. “I bought into it lock, stock and barrel.”

Last year, she was recommended for parole by a panel of state commissioners. It was the 21st time that Van Houten, 68, has appeared before a parole board, and the second time that commissioners had found her ready for release. Gov. Jerry Brown, however, rejected her parole, concluding that Van Houten — the youngest member of Manson’s so-called family — posed “an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison.”

Charles “Tex” Watson

Tried separately from the others, Watson was convicted in October 1971 and is currently incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione. Now 71, he is said to have fathered four children from conjugal visits in prison, and he started a prison ministry. He was denied parole for the 17th time in 2016, and will be eligible for another hearing in 2021.

Steve “Clem” Grogan

Convicted of the August 1969 murder of Shorty Shea, Grogan narrowly avoided a jury’s death sentence after a judge reduced it to life in prison, saying Grogan “was too stupid and too hopped on drugs to decide anything on his own.” He was paroled in 1985.

Bruce Davis

Now behind bars at the California Men’s Colony near San Luis Obispo, Davis was found guilty of murdering Gary Hinman in July 1969 and Shorty Shea in August 1969. He was recommended for parole in 2013, 2014 and 2015, but Brown refused to sign off on them all three times. At his 31st parole hearing, in February 2017, he also won recommendation of parole; Brown again denied it.

Linda Kasabian

Twenty years old at the time of the murders, Kasabian was charged in all seven killings but was given immunity and became the prosecution’s star witness. She said that she had kept watch on both nights and that she had not participated in the crimes. Raised in New Hampshire, she had moved to Los Angeles to live with the man she married. She said she joined Manson’s clan in the summer of 1969 because she felt rejected by her husband. In her testimony, Kasabian said Manson was the devil and that she did not report him to the police because she feared for the safety of her daughter. After the trial, she returned to New Hampshire. Today she is 68.

Patrick May is an award-winning writer for the Bay Area News Group working with the business desk as a general assignment reporter. Over his 34 years in daily newspapers, he has traveled overseas and around the nation, covering wars and natural disasters, writing both breaking news stories and human-interest features. He has won numerous national and regional writing awards during his years as a reporter, 17 of them spent at the Miami Herald.